Such as the FL's space. It seemed like it was going to be a heavy plot point for survival in the Country but it was only really used for money at first and then for the spring water after that. There would be an occasional throw-away line about eating the food from there but otherwise, she doesn't use it for anything.

Out of all the scheming people, all three of them wanted to marry the ML so they acted against the FL. Two after they were married. Otherwise, the other schemers were trying to get into college or trying to go against the OGFL.

One person breaks their leg while another gets paralyzed and eventually dies because they were mean to the OGFL.

The "super" antagonist who was reborn simply focused on getting the guy she wanted to the point of alienating everyone else and driving him to the point that he destroyed her whole family. She tried to get revenge later by poisoning his kids but that just put her permanently in a mental institution.

The OGFL was another transmigrator (as per the original story) who didn't quite follow the story that the FL knew but eventually hit the same beats from that story.

The FL is another transmigrator but she's like a spectator in everything and is just there for the gossip.

The "short-lived" antagonist was another transmigrator who was apparently insane even before she got there. Literally checked out both the FL and ML to see if either of them were transmigrators before hatching a plan to ruin the OGFL so she could get the OGFL's "golden finger" and then prove to the ML that the FL wasn't worth him. She even rambles about how he was her god and his son was "premade" just for her. Only cool thing of her short lived excursion is that she reveals a plot twist that she had read a different version of the story from the FL (unfortunately, the FL doesn't really think about this for more than a chapter).

I was genuinely hoping for a not-original-person showdown but it never happens. The Regressor solely focuses on the OGFL, the not-FL transmigrator dies within ten chapters (or at least it only felt that long) and the FL never revealed to the OGFL that she was also a transmigrator. So much potential but nothing ever done with it.

The Grandfather is the one who basically decided the great-grandson was going to a military school. He started teaching the kid how to ride a bike without asking the mother. He also decided that he was going to take the kid with him to an island for the entire summer vacation.

Of course, the great-grandkid doesn't act like a normal four year old and even scolds his mother for being childish when she wanted to spend time with him. It gets worse as he ages and it just seemed like the author didn't know how to write children or healthy familial relationships.

The roommate that got caught by a human trafficking ring and moved abroad was a nice touch. It was the kind of abrupt emergency that leaves everyone with strong concern and slight regrets over a common friend who went through something hard.

I found it a bit funny that no one seemed to discover that Professor Jiang's family were related to the ML's Jiang family. Maybe Lu Xia and her husband noticed, but had no plans to connect considering their household was an abandoned 'illegitimate' line of the old house that emigrated out of the country. I also couldn't tell if Professor Jiang was serious about the cheek kiss etiquette or making a joke. It would make sense if the country he was from was France but there are implications he had actually been raised in America. I suppose he was raised in an earlier era so it is possible depending on which part of America he lived in.

I also suspect that diplomat Chu had a liking for Lu Xia beyond friendship. He initially tried to impress her through competing with her in English. He never made any overtures after learning about her marriage, but something about the way he and the husband interacts seemed to contain a silent acknowledgment of "even if you like her we both know you aren't a threat since she doesn't like you at all." But he still accompanies her as a close colleague with a strong respect for her skills. His offer to help her look into why her job fell through and his glances at her husband at the time made me wonder if he thought the ML's family had interfered in her career. He was very aboveboard with this and seemed relieved once he knew she had accepted the change despite his disappointment. The real nail in the coffin is that he was so determined to stay single. Someone who could pursue a girl at first sight seemed at least somewhat interested in romance even if her roommate had a 'bookish' impression of him.

I was a little disappointed that we did not get to see her meet old acquaintances during the 'travel around China' time skip. Poor Shen Qingqing treats Lu Xia as her best friend and perhaps even closest relative in exchange for some quilts and the occasional letter. Her rough beau also seemed interesting but we never really get to hear more about him.

Current Lu Xia meets future Lu Xia (her original body) proving that this is not just "a" real world but "the" real world. The various books about the protagonist are clearly vestiges of former timelines, although it's unknown why the world around her seems to be a sieve for time travelers. I can't help but wonder if Su Man's decision to distance herself from Lu Xia had anything to do with meeting yet another traveller with more information about the future regarding the things LX hid from SM (like witnessing her mu*der someone). SM appreciated LX purely as someone she could talk to when she felt like no one in that era could understand her, so it's actually more likely that she found new like minded friends in the modern era who don't keep deliberate suspicious distance like LX.

Things speed up enough that the strongest highlight of LX's later life focuses on her autobiography. This in a way cements her as an official protagonist of her own story. She and her husband spend their final moments feeling satisfied and pondering the possibility of living more lives together. These two aspects combined make me concerned that this story is just one iteration of a very long time loop. I might read it as a sequel resulting from a collapsed timeline if this author releases any apocalyptic stories later!! This ending is pleasant in the sense that it combines being a very final well wrapped up conclusion (they die together naturally at end of life) and somehow still being an open ending with possibilities of a new journey.

The pace of the story is nice (yes, even though it's 700++ chapters, it's kinda expected since it's slice of life) , and I like reading about how doting the ML's family was towards the leads. No family drama on the ML's side (except towards the end, there was a minor drama with little to no impact)..

FL's side... full of family drama at the beginning.. some in the middle.. and finally resolved once and for all towards the end..

ML is outwardly gentleman, sometimes seems casual and aloof, but he's very warm on the inside, sometimes shedding tears when he's emotional. He's very intelligent too. It's just that his health was his nemesis... until he met the FL who cooked using "spiritual spring water" (which can heal him and made him live even longer than the FL)..

FL seems friendly and outgoing, able to socialise properly.. but she's actually very guarded and does not open her heart easily.. it's understandable, knowing her backstories.. however, many people feel close to her (sometimes unilaterally), and many even want to be closer to her, in which she gives appropriate responses... FL is clever, and in spite of wanting to be lazy, works really hard~

og!FL eventually went back to piece of sh*t og!ML. She came from the modern era, she was doing well by herself, had a golden finger &even had a good man who liked her! Or she could have just gone for no man! It honestly broke my heart that her daughter with the ML was just seen as daughter she brought into marriage because that negates the fact that the father is still the og!ml